Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Lead with a strong group of full stack engineers. 
• Design features, solve problems, debug, document and develop software and systems that meet the needs of internal users. 
• Maintain platform health through uplifts, vulnerability remediation, and ensuring enterprise resiliency. 
• Use modern technology stacks to enable build at scale, high-quality delivery and automated deployment. 
• Build in quality and leverage a Dev Ops mindset to improve operational efficiency. 
• Adopt a collaborative approach to strategic discussions, thinking outside of the box, and challenging the status-quo. 
• Take proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks. 
• Lead the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across development, test, and production environments. 
• Function as a technical leader on an Agile team by providing technical expertise, thought leadership, and contributing to technical delivery through consistent engineering practices (usage of enterprise tools, reusable components, and technical documentation). 
• Hands-on engineering expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications. 
• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments. 
• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform. 
• Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex or broad problems and formulate recommendations. 
• Collaborate with leadership across teams to define solutions and technical implementations to drive software maturity and practices. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related field required. 
• 7+ years of paid engineering experience. 
• 7+ years experience building backend applications using NodeJS. 
• 7+ years experience coding in JavaScript. 
• 7+ years experience with xPaaS (Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, ELK stack, Splunk etc.). 
• 7+ years experience with CI/CD tools including GIT, Jenkins, and XLR. 
• 7+ years experience in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions. 
• 7+ years experience with NoSQL databases. 
• 7+ years experience with enterprise-grade APIs (GraphQL, JSON, XML, etc.). 
• 7+ years experience using Service Oriented Architecture design principles and implementation patterns. 
• 7+ years experience in diagnosing, resolving, and preventing the recurrence of system outages. 
• 7+ years experience mentoring junior engineers. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of active engineering experience in a complex environment and/or comparable experience such as successful engineering and deployment of enterprise-grade technology assets in an Agile product environment. 
• Knowledge of omni-channel design patterns and reusability considerations. 
• Experience in building fault-tolerant, scalable solutions. 
• Proficient in cross-platform integration. 
• Advanced engineering skill with wide-ranging experience; able to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.  

• Advanced Degree

• Relevant Technical Certifications

• Ability to handle multiple priorities and deadlines with independent judgment. 
• Passion for learning new technologies, industry trends and deep technical curiosity. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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